Be sure to include your name, daytime phone number, address, name and phone number of legal next-of-kin, method of payment, and the name of the funeral home/crematory to contact for verification of death.

The goal is to make the Minneapolis-based discounter more agile to compete in an increasingly competitive landscape and appeal to shoppers who are buying and researching on their mobile devices. As part of the plan, Target will eliminate several thousand positions, primarily at its corporate headquarters.

Downtown Kansas City’s rejuvenation is now rolling into a new era, with the start of the $100 million streetcar line on Main Street and 70 projects in areas that include Crown Center, the Crossroads Arts District, the Downtown Loop and River Market. We map the changes in an interactive report.

Prospective members and others are welcome to attend the inaugural event March 19 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Chris Varvares, senior managing director of Macroeconomic Advisers, will speak at the 11:30 a.m. luncheon event. The cost is $20.

Kansas City’s downtown streetcar construction process is nearly 50 percent complete and should be finished by this fall. But then the vehicles will undergo months of testing before passengers are expected to start riding in the first few months of 2016.

Lately, in several personal situations and in national controversies, I’m seeing an increasingly annoying tendency to conflate the messenger with the message. But stop that. Stop it right now. Stop getting hung up and distracted by who delivers the message.

Kansas City’s downtown streetcar construction process is nearly 50 percent complete and should be finished by this fall. But then the vehicles will undergo months of testing before passengers are expected to start riding in the first few months of 2016.

Lately, in several personal situations and in national controversies, I’m seeing an increasingly annoying tendency to conflate the messenger with the message. But stop that. Stop it right now. Stop getting hung up and distracted by who delivers the message.

It’s crunch time as the acceptance letters and financial aid packages start to trickle in. But how do you size up — financially speaking — which college is offering the best deal among your favorites? The answer, experts say, lies in knowing the “net price.”

It’s crunch time as the acceptance letters and financial aid packages start to trickle in. But how do you size up — financially speaking — which college is offering the best deal among your favorites? The answer, experts say, lies in knowing the “net price.”

Today's Circulars

The Trans-Pacific Partnership covers not just trade but other issues shaping the modern economy and raises questions about sovereignty. Both political parties are split over whether to give President Obama “fast track” authority to push the treaty through Congress.

A growing portion of China’s toilet waste is converted into fertilizer and biogas. In Beijing, 6,800 tons of human excrement are treated each day by some estimates: enough to fill almost three Olympic-size swimming pools.

The Overland Park mutual fund manager has outpaced rivals in attracting investors’ dollars by its strong performance and variety of offerings. And the Ivy Funds, which Waddell manages alongside its Waddell & Reed Funds, had a big hand in this year’s showing.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership covers not just trade but other issues shaping the modern economy and raises questions about sovereignty. Both political parties are split over whether to give President Obama “fast track” authority to push the treaty through Congress.

A growing portion of China’s toilet waste is converted into fertilizer and biogas. In Beijing, 6,800 tons of human excrement are treated each day by some estimates: enough to fill almost three Olympic-size swimming pools.

The Overland Park mutual fund manager has outpaced rivals in attracting investors’ dollars by its strong performance and variety of offerings. And the Ivy Funds, which Waddell manages alongside its Waddell & Reed Funds, had a big hand in this year’s showing.

The west Crossroads continues to evolve as a new restaurant and retailer open, Hammerpress expands, a proposed nonprofit children’s book center sets up offices and a craft beer/vintage arcade center takes over a former restaurant space.

The nation’s second-largest health insurer, which is a member of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, said the cyberattack had exposed names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other sensitive details on about 80 million Americans. No credit card information or confidential health information has been identified as being exposed in the security breach, Kansas insurance regulators said.